Awards Michael Springer Wins Ledlie PrizeHarvard Medical School | August 25, 2023Michael Springer, professor of systems biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, has been awarded…sciencecityAugust 25, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Elevation of IL-17 Cytokines Distinguishes Kawasaki Disease from Other Pediatric Inflammatory DisordersBrodeur, K., et al. | August 25, 2023Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis of young children that can lead to development…sciencecityAugust 25, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week A Zpr1 Co-chaperone Mediates Folding of Eukaryotic Translation Elongation Factor 1A via a GTPase CycleMcQuown, A., et al. | August 24, 2023General protein folding is mediated by chaperones that utilize ATP hydrolysis to regulate client binding…sciencecityAugust 24, 2023 Read More
Local News Can Better Data Predict Opioid Overdoses and Slow Infectious Disease Rates?Tufts Now | August 24, 2023In much the same way that meteorologists have become more sophisticated in forecasting the weather,…pthomsonAugust 24, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week GATA6 Mutations in hiPSCs Inform Mechanisms for Maldevelopment of the Heart, Pancreas, and DiaphragmSharma, A., et al. | October 29, 2020In collaboration with the NIH’s Pediatric Cardiac Genomics Consortium, the authors sequenced thousands of children…eabramovichOctober 29, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Augmenting Emergency Granulopoiesis with CpG Conditioned Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Murine Neutropenic SepsisNg, J., et al. | October 28, 2020Emergency granulopoiesis, or the de novo generation of neutrophils in response to a systemic infection…eabramovichOctober 28, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Persistence and Decay of Human Antibody Responses to the Receptor Binding Domain of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in COVID-19 PatientsIyer, A.S., et al. | October 26, 2020The authors show that antibody responses to the receptor binding domain of the spike protein…eabramovichOctober 26, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Extracellular Matrix Plasticity as a Driver of Cell SpreadingGrolman, J.M., et al. | October 23, 2020In many biomaterial systems, plastic deformation of extracellular matrix, degradation, or relaxation of stress are…eabramovichOctober 23, 2020 Read More
Local News A 14-Year IncubationThe Harvard Gazette | March 16, 2023Sam Wattrus came to Harvard as an undergraduate thinking he would study chemistry. But he…pthomsonMarch 16, 2023 Read More
Local News Gasdermin-E Mediates Mitochondrial Damage in Axons and NeurodegenerationHarvard Medical School | March 15, 2023For physicians, scientists, and patients, neurodegenerative diseases, which affect millions of people in this country…pthomsonMarch 15, 2023 Read More
Local News Mass General Researchers Discover the Role of Intestinal Fibrosis in Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseMassachusetts General Hospital | March 14, 2023Intestinal fibrosis is a common feature of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the primary cause…pthomsonMarch 14, 2023 Read More
Local News New Insights into ALSHarvard Medical School | March 14, 2023For physicians, scientists, and patients, neurodegenerative diseases, which affect millions of people in this country…pthomsonMarch 14, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week A Disordered Region Controls cBAF Activity via Condensation and Partner RecruitmentPatil, A., et al. | October 18, 2023Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) represent a large percentage of overall nuclear protein content. The prevailing…sciencecityOctober 18, 2023 Read More
Local News He Was Named a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow for Research on Gene Regulation, but Still Has Imposter SyndromeSTAT News | October 17, 2023The youngest of this year’s class of MacArthur “genius grant” fellows, 35-year-old Jason Buenrostro was…sciencecityOctober 17, 2023 Read More
Awards Michael Lodato Selected for NIH Director’s New Innovator AwardUMass Chan | October 17, 2023Michael Lodato, PhD, assistant professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology, has received a 2023…sciencecityOctober 17, 2023 Read More